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LUDWIG BERGER - GARDEN OF EDIACARA
Cat #: OUS047
Release date: May 17, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Music is a form of world building. I love to develop sonic characters and set them into fictional ecosystems with unique textures, acoustics and atmospheres. Each song forms a different landscape, through which a vocal character guides us and tries to tell us its stories.» — @ludwigberger

Ludwig Berger’s ‘fictional’ debut album «Garden Ediacara» unfolds as a musical eco-fiction, guiding listeners through a speculative ecosystem with synthesized vocals. Infused with storytelling techniques from sci-fi and fantasy, the album intertwines melodic songwriting with electroacoustic sound design. Inspired by hydrofeminism and eco-fiction novels, such as «A Door Into Ocean» by Joan Slonczewski, the album delves into the geological period of Ediacara around 600 million years ago — an era so remote it resonates as a glimpse into a possible future. The Ediacaran period was characterised by a peaceful and thriving ecosystem inhabited by soft-bodied creatures without eyes and bones, which were completely wiped out through the appearance of a new species. «Garden of Ediacara» alludes to this period, celebrating both the pleasures of biodiversity as well as mourning its inevitable loss. The narrative unfolds as an exploration of growth and interconnection in the shadow of a coming extinction. The track titles, written by Daisy Lafarge, reveal themselves as a cohesive poem and contribute to the album’s narrative.

Informed by his practice of field recording that focusses on intimate encounters with plants, animals and geological phenomena, as well as his studies in electroacoustic composition, Berger expands his palette for his debut in ‘fictional’ music. The album prominently features a post-human, non-binary death metal voice synthesizer, physical modeling instruments, and microscopic field recordings of plants, insects, as well as aquatic and geological life. With impressionistic strokes, Ludwig Berger crafts vibrant worlds using glassy timbres and more-than-human voices, guiding listeners through emotionally ambiguous terrain, seamlessly oscillating between moments of intimacy and irritation, melancholy and playfulness.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. He is founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.



ALBUM TRACKLIST
1. what seed quests for a coralline mud slump
2. where the body’s distant arrivals 
3. bake airwaves into symbols? 
4. like aurochs who fraternised with syntax of the riverbed
5. we stop short, frothy, outdoing the grass
6. rake a song-gush from the outcrop
7. or the noun of naïve particles
8. leeching off the glow-work of organ rooms  
9. we go candied in the marrow
10. grow dream-bark, a tree

CREDITS
Music written and produced by Ludwig Berger
Cover image by Paulin Rogues
Track list poem by Daisy Lafarge
Mastering by Manuel Oberholzer VFBM

OUS047
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Garden of Ediacara

rake a song-gush from the outcrop

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MUSIQUE INFINIE - I
Cat #: OUS044
Release date: December 8, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«This album unites our love for a musical essence built on harmonic structures and borderless emotionality.»  — Musique Infinie / @musiqueinfinie

Musique Infinie is a duo comprising Noémi Büchi and Feldermelder, a new collaborative project intertwining two distinct compositional approaches and merging them into a massive core. While Büchi combined her background in classical and electro-acoustic music with a bold approach to composition on her highly acclaimed debut album ‘Matter’ (-OUS, 2022), multi-disciplinary artist Feldermelder has been expanding his artistic practice into unexplored realms for over 20 years. Together, they engage in a challenging, concerted exploration of the elementary forces that unfold between them. 

Their debut album, titled ‘I’, is the product of hybridization, with compositions initially guided by simplicity, then radically expanded and transformed into intricate forms and extraordinary arrangements. The prospect of stylistic classification is transcended through eclecticism, in material that assimilates elements of classical music, jazz, folk and film music into the vocabulary of experimental electronic music. Representing an imposing, enveloping vortex of sound, the pieces that make up ‘I’ create a paradoxical world, both formidable and euphoric. Eschewing calculations and expectations, these works progress through ruptures and recurrence, displaying compositional richness through modes of music production that span analogue, acoustic, and orchestral idioms. In this, Musique Infinie reflect the density of our contemporary world, in all its violence, decadence and fragility, but also its power, its ingenuity and its beauty.

Composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi creates forms of electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption, and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is co-founder of -OUS Records and an active member of Encor.studio, a collective specialising in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience.


Written and produced by Manuel Oberholzer & Noémi Büchi
Mixed by Maurizio Borgna
Mastered by VFBM
Cover imgage by David Houncheringer
Graphic design by Fichtre & Musique Infinie
This is OUS044

@feldermelder
@noemibuchi

Musique Infinie - 5 - Broken Mind Circuit

fourth episode of STEAM, recorded & livestreamed on the 24.11.23;
slow dubby Earcandy for chilling and tapping your foot

STEAM04: N:in Studio Session 24/11/23

C - B0Y

A mix of tracks from recently released albums on @constellationtatsu label, for more information visit:

This mix is produced for broadcast on @radiockut 90.3FM on If you got ears, for the April 10, 2024 edition.

Thank you for listening! - Stefan.

Track listing
(artist name / track name)

01. Andy Aquarius - U Lisi
02 Glo Phase - Vista Hermosa
03. Glo Phase - Pearl Around Moss
04. Tarotplane - Aeonium
05. Tarotplane - Auximenes
06. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - The Griot
07. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Igi
08. Tarotplane - Omayyad
09. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Baki
10. @rfisher89 & @dexterstory - Eburean Dance
11. @iksremusic - we are soaring
12. IKSRE - tail lights
13. IKSRE - pillars
14. @glophase - The Reflecting Pool
15. Glo Phase - Seaflowers
16. Glo Phase - Blink Reprise
17. @andyaquarius - Kyrie
18. Andy Aquarius - La Force Aquarienne
19. Glo Phase - Ugoki
20. Glo Phase - Rewind The Sim
21. Glo Phase - Transient Shelter
22. IKSRE - intention
23. IKSRE - dawn in a foreign city
24. IKSRE - heartburst

The cover image is “DENKENDER EMBRYO72” (1972), a silkscreen by Gernot Bubenik photographed by the artist specifically for this release, Aeonium by Tarotplane. www.bubenikgernot.com/index-e.html

A Constellation Tatsu mix for CKUT 90.3 FM

Omqroid

Manja Ristić/Joana Guerra/Verónica Cerrotta, Slani pejzaži

Bruits de Fond (@wabi-sabi-tapes)
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Adela Mede - Sing With Me
Madeleine Cocolas - A Memory, Blown Out
Amor Muere - LA
Qoa - Liquen
Vanessa Bedoret - Choice
Kilchhofer Anklin - Zinnen 
Fatima Al Qadiri - Mojik (Your Waves)
Bear Bones Lay Low - Wuduvazle
Ka Baird - Gate X
Adriaan de Roover - Homebound
Lucie Simone -Chute
Eve Aboulkheir - ZOE
Mélodie Blaison- Memoir
Clarissa Connelly - Wee Rosebud
Maxime Denuc - Ouverture
Grand River - All Playing

Bruits de fond w/ Mélodie Blaison /CAMP Radio

Vomit Heat's LP Spirit Desire is out on Ana Ott.
www.anaott.bandcamp.com

Indie-Connoisseurs know Vomit Heat as part of the psychedelic pop wonder Ωracles. In the lo-fi and shoegaze scene he is better known for his solo alias Vomit Heat. Everyone familiar with both projects might think there are (at least) two hearts beating in his chest. Additionally putting his neo-krautrock band Transport in the mix shows, there is a bigger concept at work - fusing experimentalism, kraut and psychedelic, no fear of melodies and a heart for noise.

Video artist Alice Cohen is responsible for the video to Broken Heartscape and she did a wonderful job. Cohen’s work has been shown at film festivals and exhibitions all over the world. She is, of course, also known as a musician, composer and former The Vels singer. Watch it on Youtube: http://bit.ly/1U298OB

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Vomit Heat - Broken Heartscape

Massimo Carozzi is a sound recordist, sound designer and musician based in Bologna, Italy. Since 1994 he has looked into relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Massimo Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. As a musician he collaborated both in studio and on stage with various musicians and sound artists such as Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margareth Kammerer, Valerio Tricoli, Claudio Rocchetti, Starfuckers and many others. In September 2000 he founded the group ZimmerFrei whose artistic practice ranges from video art to documentary films, sound and environmental installations, as well as photography, performances, workshops and public art projects. 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Massimo Carozzi - Echelon

Ana Ott is a vinyl and cassette label. The artist that coincide here, share a rapture for an experimental approach to sound, therefore we try to encourage these musical encounters with our concert series. Genre boundaries are irrelevant.

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